Sandy Thain Car Sales Limited
Reference number: 478155
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Appointed representative
This firm does not hold FCA authorisation of its own, and acts under a principal firm, which is legally responsible for its regulated business.
- Appointed for 18 years
- Protected through the principal
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2003
- Accounts filed up to 31 May 2025
Responsible principal firm
Itc Compliance Limited Reference number: 313486 View firm →What does this mean?
- An appointed representative (AR) can carry out regulated financial services, but is not directly authorised by the FCA. A principal firm holds the authorisation and is legally responsible for the AR's conduct.
- SANDY THAIN CAR SALES LIMITED (FRN 478155) is an AR of Itc Compliance Limited (FRN 313486). When you use SANDY THAIN CAR SALES's services, the FCA authorisation sits with the principal firm.
- Example: if you take financial advice from SANDY THAIN CAR SALES, complaints and compensation usually follow the same rules as dealing with the principal, but this depends on the product and your circumstances.
- Before you proceed, confirm contact details match the official FCA register for both firms. Scammers sometimes clone legitimate AR names and FRNs but use fake phone numbers and websites.
Website, phone number and address
Compare these against whatever you were given. Scammers clone real firm names and reference numbers but use their own phone number and website, so a detail that does not match the register is the clearest warning sign there is.
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Phone number
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Address
1 Midmill Business Park, Kintore, Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, AB51 0TG, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When sandythain.co.uk first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 01467 633633 is
- Who else gives the postcode AB51 0TG
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Sandy Thain Car Sales Ltd Former name: A name it was registered under before.
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through Itc Compliance Limited, the principal firm responsible for this firm's regulated activity. FSCS cover and the Financial Ombudsman Service apply as they would to the principal.
- Complaints Ombudsman, freeYou can refer a complaint about this firm to the Financial Ombudsman Service for free, whichever activity it relates to.
FCA disciplinary action and complaints
No FCA disciplinary action.
The Financial Ombudsman Service only publishes complaint figures for firms with 30 or more new complaints in six months, so there are none here for this firm.
Companies House record
The company behind the firm: its status, age, registered office and directors.
- Company number
- SC256739 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 29 September 2003 (23 years old)
- Registered office
- Matches the FCA register address ✓
- Nature of business
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- Sale of used cars and light motor vehicles (SIC 45112)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
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| Michael David Cameron | Director | Feb 1963 | 29 Sep 2003 | None |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that its director runs no other company
- Both people who have been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Total equity
£2.23m
+14% from £1.95m
Cash at bank
£1.05m
+48% from £713k
Employees (average)
12
+9.1% from 11
Owed within a year
£255k
+16% from £221k
Assets and liabilities
In the full report: all 7 years of accounts
- Every year from 2019 to 2025
- The chart, over every year
- Every filed figure, year by year
About these figures
- Turnover
- Money taken from sales in the year, before any costs.
- Profit before tax
- What was left after the year’s costs, before corporation tax. A minus figure is a loss.
- Net assets, or total equity
- Everything the company owns minus everything it owes. A minus figure means it owes more than it owns.
- Total assets and total liabilities
- Everything the company owns, and everything it owes, on the last day of the year. The gap between them is its net assets.
- Cash at bank
- Money in the company’s accounts on the last day of the year.
- Owed within a year, owed after a year
- Debts and bills due in the next twelve months, and those due later.
There is no turnover or profit: small companies do not have to publish them.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company SC256739. Every figure is as filed, apart from total assets and total liabilities, which are added up from filed figures. Nothing is estimated.
Key dates in its history
Sandy Thain Car Sales’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2023
20 October 2023
- Douglas Simpson Gray stopped being a part-owner
Companies House
2016
6 April 2016
- Douglas Simpson Gray became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
- Douglas Simpson Gray stopped being a part-owner
- Michael David Cameron became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
- Michael David Cameron stopped being a part-owner
- Michael David Cameron took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2010
18 November 2010
- Changed its registered name from "Sandy Thain Car Sales Ltd"
FCA register
2008
28 January 2008
- Became an appointed representative
FCA register
2003
29 September 2003
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 12 events
- All 12 events in its history (9 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 3
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Sources and links
- Its entry on the FCA register register.fca.org.uk
- Its Companies House record gov.uk
- Complaints the Financial Ombudsman Service can help with financial-ombudsman.org.uk
- Report a scam to the FCA fca.org.uk